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Article #1134Re: pause(2) vs. sigpause(3)
From: Dan Bernstein
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 1990 04:58
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 1990 04:58
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In article <717@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes: > Why obsoleted a perfectly simple system call with a > library function? Here it's pause(3) and sigpause(2). What machine are you using? > (BTW, neither of them is ANSI C; I don't know which might > be in POSIX). POSIX imitated the BSD signal facilities, with some helpful additions. It made sigpause() into sigsuspend(). The difference is that the argument is a ``sigset_t'' manipulated by macros. ---Dan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!phri!cmcl2!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: pause(2) vs. sigpause(3) Message-ID: <27817:Oct3104:58:4990@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 31 Oct 90 04:58:49 GMT References: <43321@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <717@inews.intel.com> Organization: IR Lines: 14